News to know: New Blackberry patent; AMD hypocrisy; 8-core Mac Pro; Nokia N95

Notable headlines: 

Russell Shaw: Major new Blackberry patent.

Jason O'Grady: Apple release octo-core Mac Pro. Photos: 8-core Mac Pro (left). George Ou: Apple bursts out. Apple flunks green tech test.

Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft cranks up its Open XML standardization campaign. Vista branding is confusing, but is it criminal? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes on Vista branding. New Harris Poll: Vista awareness up, sales not.

George Ou: German researchers put final nail in WEP.

HP eyes aspiring gearheads with new PC brand.

Matthew Miller: Is the Nokia N95 the ultimate multimedia computer? Unboxing gallery (right).
Ryan Naraine: Mozilla to ship Firefox 'workaround' for .ANI exploit. Windows cursor patch causing trouble.

Techdirt: Verizon Wireless Slowly, Quietly, Backing Away From Misleading Claims Of Unlimited Service.
GigaOm: Marketing in Second Life doesn't work...here is why.

Rewriting ethics rules for the new media.

Knowledge@Wharton: The man who would change Microsoft--Ray Ozzie. 

Larry Dignan: The big API gambl

David Berlind: Chips ahoy! AMD 'claims' speed title with bogus benchmarks. Gallery (right). AMD responds. George Ou: Strike 3 for AMD hypocrisy on benchmarking.

Two companies (AMD and Intel). Two chips. One code name.
John Spooner: Intel heads out on the highway. Intel plans Centrino Pro for business notebooks. Reuters: Micron says memory prices have stabilized.
Computerworld:  Don't Believe the Hype: The 21 Biggest Technology Flops.

Google makes mashups easy, even for me.
Larry Dignan: Yahoo ambushed by hindsight and armchair CEOs--again.

Donna Bogatin: Obama trounces Clinton in online campaign money grab.
Russell Shaw: BlackBerry in-flight will take longer than you think. So how many calls could cell-in-air support?

Larry Dignan: Reading the tech tea leaves via Best Buy, Circuit City.
Ars Technica: Hands on with the new Google Desktop for Mac. Techmeme discussion.
Lenovo wants to be household name.